The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-09
t.GNE ONCE MORE.
Wi,at hob EnrJatte Has to SaT About
settling. Bown to iiousakerp.h:.

II ~ hfaA
>cttiin, Bown to Housekeeping.
1t is indeed pleasant to settle down
to housekeeping agaiu after Il few
years of life in rycry sort of a hoste!ry'
from m upoN-iAcc ca,np in the Adiron-
Lack> To New York hotel, There are
10 many pleasant surprises in store for
one. when one takes ones Lares and
Pcnates. with al, the appurtenances
%thereunto appcrtaining from the dark
solitude Of the gloomy store room in
which they have passed 4 few years in
sentiment and reflection. You think
Of 81 many more things than you say.
rs YOU unpack the barrels OF han,-
mc:ed china aud crackle ware. All
our china is real hammered and all our
crystal is the %scnuiuc cracklc. Some OF
our fragile ware l hammered myself,
some the truukman hammered, and
some was hammered when the cask
fell down the elevator well al the store
room. | am a fair to abiding light.
weight packer. but | am not a genius.
Consequently. IL ncvet occurred to
me, when | packed 4 bale of pressed
hay around ono tumbler, to pack
against the contingency Of a fall of six
stories. But then | never stored be-
fore. and | knew not the ways of the
storage warehouse. do now. If ever
store gain-aut-cXcuse these tears.
have now nothing to store. Nothing
save only one stove leg. And it doesn't
belong to me. II got mixed up with
my things in the warehouse. But it is
whole; hasn't u crack or flaw in it. and
so | will keep it. have no earthly use
for it. but it does my soul good to see
something whole about the new house
beside the ones | made in the wall
hunting for II hidden Scantling with
a hammer and a picture nail. found a
scantling once. Probcd for it with a
gimlet until | 90; hold of it. Then |
went into the next room for q hammer
and a picture nail. When Icame back.
if somebody hadn't moved that scant-
ling | am a heather from Nowgong, |
haven't time to chase a scantling all
around a house. So drove the nail in
to a lath and huog the picture. | am
now II picture short in that room,
but | pla>,crcd tho hole in the wall SO
neatly YOU can't sec where it hap.
pened.
So many little A,iugs turn up as you
uncover your lon.-hiddcn treasures.
/ hear my sister weeping in the next
room over one Of them now. She
brings her piteous face into my Lair
and says, in the tone of a woman who
is awcarv of life: II have found an
other moth say: why, you found
six yesterday: what do you want with
~anothcr?' She goes away wringing
hev hands. | suppose she found this
one to bring the count up to the per-
feet number. Why do womcn-God
bless them-g" about hunting for
things they don't want to find?
Only the Other day. while l was
writing an ode to Washington and
was trying to think of a rhyme for
Ratchet, she called me downstairs.
She said: Il believe there is something
alive in that barrel ! said in my native
language. which always comes back to
me in moments Of anger: ''Aw-w-w-w!'
The idiom is untranslatablc. Only
men who have used it know
what it means; to all others it is the
Unknowable. l stood on my head in
that barrel to grasp at the straw and
crush her idle fears, and may | never
see the penitentiary if a procession of
,tarveling mice didn't stampede up my
back and Jump of my waving legs. l
lid not come out Of that barrel so
hastily as you might suppose. Ny in
tention was TO come out rather abrupt
ly, but l checked it. A nail a foot
long, which ran into my back eighteen
inches, helped me to pause. They had
to knock the other head Of the barrel
in aud let me crawl through that way.
l am now 4 tectotalier. but l had a nail
that day that for staying qualities beat
any meat Ticker that ever introduced
fallen nan to the inmcs jambs. --Robert
H. Burdette. in BrOoJiun EH0le.